Author: Hobhouse, Emily.
Title: Die Smart Van Die Oorlog. En Wie Dit Gely Het.
Description: Nasionale Pers. Cape Town 1941 2nd printing. Green cloth boards, 436pp illustrated b/w photographs. Neat ownership inscription. A truly VG copy in original Poor dustwrapper. Sound and clean copy, excluding the dustwrapper. Afrikaans text. Olive Schreiner's 1903 letter to the Author as printed in the beginning of the book reads (as translated): "I have read your book. Under the circumstances, I must judge that you have treated the subject in an admirable manner. It is unbeatable. Many Dutch-speaking people requested me to order the book for them in Dutch. I consider that you have done more effective and useful work in South Africa for the cause of general humanity and law than any other person has been able to do. You have saved not hundreds, but undoubtedly thousands of lives. I fear your work will leave adverse and lasting marks on your disposition. Such a time of struggle with injustice is not going to sit in one's clothes. I am glad that you are not in South Africa. This will enable you to shed the past with its memories better than we can under the pressure of the present. This is just a word to express my admiration for your book - your book with its powerful self-control and deep feeling".

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